Designing ‘phygital’ spaces: Integrating mobile social media in health education

Abstract

Effectively managing change within the curriculum usually manifests itself as a series of iterative changes to learning modules based on student and teacher feedback, implementation of new research, and when recommended, through an external review process. How are the challenges of this change process managed and how can learning technologies enhance educative experiences when undertaking a significant module redesign? This session maps technological and pedagogical changes undertaken through a collaboration between learning technologists and educators as they redesigned a prior curriculum (a module not offered for a period of seven years), to a twelve week, media and communication in health..